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Price: $100 start up fee and $197 Monthly Guarantee: 30 day money back Installation: None- Hosted solution Trial Version: None Support: Ticket system Payment Processors: Integrated with paypal, 1shoppingcart and Authorize.net Integration Plugins: Built in chat, forums, polls, surveys, WYSIWYG editor. Required Software: None - Hosted Description: Visiongate provides a hosted solution. They provide up to 6gb of space and 50gb of transfer monthly. Visiongate has many of the integrations you will need for your membership site. Since it is a hosted solution, you may not be able to make custominzations to the code, or integrate it with 3rd party scripts. No built in affiliate program. However a 3rd party affiliate program maybe possible.

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Bad experience with Visiongate Portal
Author: gigtime	Date: 2008-06-28 19:05:42
I used Visiongate Portal for over a year. This is when it was roughly $67 per month. Initially I signed up because I'd run into Mark, the owner, at a marketing seminar. Mark was very helpful and spent about an hour and a half talking to me and giving me tips and tricks. I signed up because he told me 1shoppingcart integration was coming in about a month. They kept promising an upgrade to the new system was just around the corner for a year. When it finally came, we were told the upgrade would be seamless. It wasn't. 75% of our membership site had to be rebuilt and they wouldn't do the work. At that point, we had subscribers and I couldn't drop what I was doing to learn the new system and rebuild the site so I asked them to refer me to a programmer that could do the work for me. $900 later, the programmer bailed out without having completed the integration. I finished it myself but there were still lots of bugs. Shortly after this, the server they had my site on, along with many other customers, crashed erasing all our content. We were told that there were full backups and we'd be back up and running within a few days. Then came the news that their hosting company had accidentally reformatted the hard drives containing the backups. All our content, forum posts, etc. were gone. Normally, I have backups of all my sites but not this one since it would only run on their system. The only thing they were willing to do, and only after several protests, was credit me for one months service. Since we had about 100 subscribers paying $20 per month, there was no way to quickly rebuild the entire site, we reluctantly refunded all our subscribers for the current month, canceled their subscriptions and shut the site down. I had a partner in the site and it didn't make sense to drop everything to try to rebuild the site, especially since there was a lack of coders available to help that were familiar with VG's system. Mark comes up with great features but, unfortunately, doesn't seem to have access to quality programmers to deliver those features and/or a willingness to bring someone in full-time to debug the system. I love what I see offered in their latest version but don't have confidence they'll be able to deliver what they're offering. All the best, Bill Hibbler http://www.EcommerceConfidential.com
My experience with Visiongate
Author: getsome	Date: 2007-11-20 08:24:08
I decided to try Visiongate for my first membership site as it was a reasonable price and it did everthing I needed it to do. I was with them for aprox 3months and in that time I paid my $97 each month and was busy building the site. As it was not complete yet I did not have my web address pointing to it. Visiongate decided to move servers without letting me know and because they considered my site was not active (although i was still adding content and paying them) they deleted everything in the server move and said they had no backup copy. I am now using aMember, Joomla, & Listmail which I feel is a far superior combination, allows for more flexibility & I have the option to back my site up whenever I need to!

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